Chris de Burgh, a top performer from the world of Anglo-American pop music....
Born October 15, 1948, in Argentina; married; wife's name, Diane; children: Rosanna, Hubie (son), Michael. Education: Degree in English and French from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
There are seven bridges to be crossed, seven years of darkness to survive, seven times in oceans to be lost, but then I'll see the shining light.
Addresses: Record company--A&M, 595 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022.
Irish singer and songwriter Chris de Burgh was a classic example of an artist who was massively popular throughout the world but remained relatively unknown in two of the largest musical markets in the world, the United States and England.
While this scenario would be an extremely daunting and vexing situation for many other artists, de Burgh actually relished it and actively sought to follow his musical muse far from the pop paparazzi of England and America's all-encompassing entertainment monolith.
His global chart smash hit, "Lady in Red," was de Burgh's only entrant into the higher echelons of the British and American pop charts. This was fine by de Burgh as he explained to Billboard's Ken Stewart: "You have to go in f